Twitter Users here's How to Use Twitter Stickers on Android and iOS

An interesting feature has been included in Twitter for Android & iOS, and it's called Twitter Stickers. This was made known in an announcement made by the social media giant earlier in the week, and the feature would be delivered to all its users in a series of updates as from now on.

The update seems to be country-based, as some Twitter users have received it, and others haven't. Some of those that have received the update don't actually know that there's a new feature called Twitter Stickers, so we're letting you know now, and we're not stopping at that; we're going to show you how to use Twitter Stickers in this guide. Read on...

How to Use Twitter Stickers on Android and iOS

Quick Tip
For those that don't know what Twitter Stickers is, it's a new feature in Twitter that allows you to add emojis and images from a collection to the images you want to tweet. It's a feature that has previously existed in Snapchat.

If you've received the latest update for the Twitter App on your smart device, follow these simple steps to start using Twitter Stickers now.

1. Launch the Twitter App.

2. Start composing a Tweet.

3. Tap the camera icon that appears while you're composing a tweet.

4. Look at the bottom right side of the screen. Two icons will appear there: a smiley icon and a pencil icon. You probably know what the pencil icon is used for - to add filters to images. The smiley face icon is what's new to us here. It's the key to using Twitter Stickers.

5. Tap on the Smiley Face icon.

6. Now you'll be taken to a screen full of sticker collections grouped into various categories like recently used, featured, Animals and Nature, etc. You can browse through each category.

 
7. When you find a sticker that suits the image you're tweeting tap on it to select the sticker.

8. You'll be taken to a screen where you can edit, rotate and resize the sticker as it suits you.

9. When you're done, click on the Tweet button. Your image with the added stickers would be tweeted instantly!. A #Stickers hash tag will be added to the tweet to make it easy to search for images with Twitter Stickers.

10. To remove a sticker from an image, simply tap and hold on the sticker, then drag it down to the garbage bin that appears at the bottom of the screen.





Note that there's a limit to the number of stickers that can be added to an image, and it's 25 ;-) . What do you think of this new feature by Twitter? Do let us know.

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How Influential or Powerful Are You On Social Media - Get To Know

I believe you must have gone through your Facebook, Twitter or Instagram today, it is exciting how Billions of people use Social Media everyday, every minute, every Second, for various reasons, the major reason being to Connect and Share with Old and New friends.

In fact, re-connection with old friends was the first definition of Social Networking, as days had gone by, Social Networking (now Social Media) has transcended into more purpose and grown into something Much more Huge than just Connecting with Familiar friends. People now use it for Entertainment, Sharing Fun, knowledge, Business, Marketing and so on.

These New Reasons and Essence of using Social Media seem to yield the Best results by How much influence A Social media Profile has on their Friends or fans.

So we throw up the Question:
How Influential & Powerful Are You on Social Media?

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In Social Media, I noticed there're always two kinds of people you can be, either you're the Giver, or you're the receiver of contents, you choose who you want to be there and get the best results out of your Facebook, Twitter, Instagram accounts etc, if you know just How Influential & Powerful YOU ARE or CAN BE on Social Media.

After reading this Post, we will be able to understand:

1. What is Social Media Influence

2. Tools with Metrics/Stats for measuring Your Influence on Social Media

3. Amazing things You Can Do With the Social Media Measuring Tool.

4. Few methods, tweaks or Life Hacks that Improves your Influence on Social Media

WHAT IS INFLUENCE, in Social Media

I'll give us a Practical Example...
When a Successful Artiste, Enterpreneur or other Personalities post on Facebook, Do you notice How many Hundreds or Thousand RESHARES, LIKES and COMMENTS Only that Post receives? That is what counts as influence, the Ability to impact and make people do things through your Social Media Posts.

HOW TO MEASURE YOUR INFLUENCE ON SOCIAL MEDIA

Now this is the most exciting part of this Post, where I'll show us a Great tool you'll use to know your Virality or influence On Social Media. This Tool is known as KLOUT .
Klout measures your Influence and also improves your  performance by helping you find, Create and share great content.

I had been on KLOUT since early January this Year 2015,
After Signing up and Connecting some of my Accounts, I personally had to share it with you as I found it really useful, it picks the most relevant Viral Posts I had made on Social Media and puts them up for me to see.
Klout will also use your Performance to Measure your Klout Score, the Higher the Score - the Better.

Below is my performance over the last 90 days according to Klout.

 

Amazing Things Klout Can Do For You.

1. IT CAN EASILY QUALIFY YOU FOR A SPONSORED POST:
Looking for a way to make some cash using your blog or Profile? Now, some Web Industries or Companies looking for Influential Writer Profiles, before they Hire you, they won't ask you How many Thousand Followers you Have on Twitter or Facebook, they just ask for your KLOUT SCORE. It's as easy as that.
Or if you're submitting a Proposal to write or be an Influencer you can Simply Add your Klout score to your Report, it will be recognised and appreciated.


2. IT TELLS YOU WHERE YOU'RE DOING GREAT OR POORLY:
When you scroll up and have a look at my Connected Accounts on Klout, My Facebook scored 82%, Twitter 15% and LinkedIn 4%, this tells me that while I am doing good on Facebook, I am not doing well on Twitter & LinkedIn so I'll have to be more regular there to make the Ratio better.
I am yet to even connect my Instagram and FourSquare Accounts.
It's based on Interests, you may Enjoy FB and Twitter and stick with them, but it's a Big Plus to be Every where possible.

Few LifeHacks & Tweaks that Improves your Social Media Influence

This headline should be an Entirely Fresh post on its own, I'll keep it real Quick anyway, If you're interested in motivating people/friends, try these few Traits of an Influencer:

• Smile for everyone and be fun
• Conversations cannot always be about YOU, Most or sometimes you talk useful things about others
• Influential People do on Social media what they want to be doing in life, No faking
• They are Direct and honest, while always being conscious of the feelings of others

All the above should reflect in your Posts, both Texts and photos. After implementing these within a couple of weeks, your Klout score should go up meaning your Influence is going up.

Have you checked with Klout already? You may be More Influential than I am on Social Media, How many Points did you Score, please Share with us in the comment form :)

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Great Tips to Improve Your SEO Rankings through Social Media

SEO or Search Engine Optimization has undergone a sea of change from its initial years. A whole new range of algorithm has changed the ground for even playing field. They are trying to rule out malpractices in SEO as well as find unique and user loved sites to rank in the searches more. Along with this the huge surge in popularity of Social Media has changed the dynamics completely. Modern success in page ranking is much more dependent on a successful integration of SEO and Social media. Enhancing SEO with effective and impressive Social Media presence holds the key to success.

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Here are some tips to do it.

TIP 1: Brand Building.

Establishing a strong brand presence is one of the first things to do on the top social networking sites. This makes your site or brand visible on any social search. As the current trend is to stay logged in to their social networking pages almost 24/7, they also try to look for information in those sites.


Using your business name, while signing up in any social media sites, will be a better way to start. This also helps better brand recalling. While signing up try to use the most popular social networking sites as well as the professional networking sites too. Audio visual networking site like YouTube will also do a lot of good.

TIP 2: Share and let them Share.

Insert Share buttons for these networking sites in your page will allow readers or visitors to share contents that they like. This will increase your visibility in your social network and increase your social presence also. The more people share your content or ‘Like’ them, more of their friends will get to learn about you, your content and what you have to offer.

TIP 3: Social Bookmarking.

Social bookmarking sites like StumbleUpon, Reddit, and Pinterest can do wonders to your social presence and SEO. They also provide a great opportunity to go viral. The attribute to “dofollow” has a huge impact.

TIP 4: Beat your own Drum.

Use your brand name at every opportunity. This creates brand visibility as well as brand consciousness among users. Most importantly they will improve search ranking and SEO. Use the brand’s name in all updates, comments and every way possible but always try to make the brand name a part of the content. But do not speak badly about any other brand, as this creates mistrust among the loyal fans also.

TIP 5: Communicate

Good ranking in social media means an active presence in the media. The secret of successful social media presence and thereby successful SEO is not only building a page.


Use the social media page to interact with your consumers. Post relevant contents, interact with other brands and followers. Use the page to launch, advertise, and float discount and contests. Using the page for direct interaction can also be a good idea.

More likes, shares, follows, tweets are likely to rank your page higher in search results.

Conclusion.

With the population in social media increasing at a phenomenal rate every second, it is one of the best places for SEO. Keeping the basics right and ethically correct SEO can be done to increase your business and brand promotion hugely in these sites. People are getting more and more dependent on social media to find information on about everything possible, particularly consumer goods. So using them properly and effectively will definitely help promote business and SEO.

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